Cliff:
I don't see why anything would need to be installed on the professor's
system here.
The VPN client software needs to be installed on the system he's using
at his remote location in order to establish a secure pathway to the
MSU Campus network, after which remote desktop should work as it did
before.
The installation instructions for the client software are in the
techbase article referred to in the "we've blocked RDP" notice.
Of course, if his system here has additional firewall settings which
were preset to allow connections from a particular remote location,
then they might need to be extended to allow connections from the campus
VPN servers, but that's the only thing I can think of which might need
to be changed on a "destination system" which had worked before.
I do agree, however, that springing this without warning in the absence
of any suddenly-discovered RDP security flaw is unprofessional.
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From: Clifford Beckett <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 09:18
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] FYI Microsoft RDP now blocked at campus border
Hello NAG,
I agree. Doing this sort of action with no advanced notice should not be allowed. A professor on vacation has lost access to his local computer files and I can not install VPN on it for him while he is away. Somebody needs to reverse this change and give us at least a month to make the required changes.
Cliff
On 6/28/2015 2:50 PM, Kim Geiger wrote:
I was traveling and this sudden and unexpected block caused some consternation, lemme tell you. So uncool.
Kim Geiger
WKAR Radio & Television, WKAR.org
East Lansing, Michigan
517-884-4766
>>> On 6/28/2015 at 9:19 AM, John Valenti <[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I had a professor complain that he couldn't access his office computer, I found this:
http://servicestatus.msu.edu/status_detail.php?id=12139
Apparently this block went into place Friday, with no advance notice that I saw. Is there some new exploit for RDP? I looked for security notices and didn't find much.
-John
HRLR
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